Two puzzling things about the Travers...

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

The NYRA is now at 15%. Has been since Belmont Summer meet.

Thanks, Randall. I should have known that! Seems to me that the rise to 15% didn't get as much play as when they dropped it to 14%. Heck, this time last year they had proposed dropping the take to 13%.

Here's a link to track takes at most tracks. I should have checked this (again) before posting:

http://brisnet.com/cgi-bin/static.cg...out&header=off

Originally Posted by randallscott35

The payout was correct. Breakage sucks and screws the bettor.

Well, we can only ASSUME that the payout was correct. In fact, if you calculate the place payoff on Bluegrass Cat using a 15% track take, you come up with $2.39, which would be rounded down to $2.30. So the bettors got a real bargain when they collected $2.50 because of the new "Net-Pool" policy.

--Dunbar